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<h1>Highway</h1>
<p>Highway is a <strong>lightweight</strong> (2.5ko gzipped), <strong>easy-to-use</strong>, <strong>flexible</strong> and <strong>modern</strong> library to create AJAX navigations with animations on websites. Don't bother about all the process behind-the-scene and focus on creative animations.</p>

<h3>Lightweight</h3>
<p>Highway comes without any excess of features, it's complete and lightweight.</p>

<h3>Easy-to-use</h3>
<p>Highway is easy to use because it's based on ready-to-use ES6 classes developers can extend.</p>

<h3>Flexible</h3>
<p>Highway fits to many scenarios and can be easily improved with features thanks to the way it's built.</p>

<h3>Modern</h3>
<p>Highway is built with ES6 features compiled into ES5 for an optimal browser support, IE11 included.</p>

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<h2 id="browser-support"><a href="#browser-support">Browser Support</a></h2>
<p>Highway is supported by <b>all recent major versions</b> of the following modern browsers.</p>
<ul class="browsers">
  <li>✅ Chrome</li>
  <li>✅ Firefox</li>
  <li>✅ Edge</li>
  <li>✅ Safari</li>
</ul>

<h2>With polyfills</h2>
<p>Older browsers or versions can be supported by Highway by combining it with <b>polyfills</b>. Please follow <a href="examples/polyfills.html">this example</a> to have more information. Once the polyfills are configured, Highway should be working on <b>most of the browsers and versions</b>. However, be aware that the <b>oldest browsers or versions</b> might still be unsupported. So, be reasonable before opening an issue...</p>
<ul class="browsers">
  <li>✅ Chrome</li>
  <li>✅ Firefox</li>
  <li>✅ Edge</li>
  <li>✅ Safari</li>
  <li>✅ Internet Explorer</li>
</ul>

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<h2 id="contributors"><a href="#contributors">Contributors</a></h2>

<ul class="contributors">
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/Anthodpnt" target="_blank"><img src="https://avatars2.githubusercontent.com/u/6245705?s=460&v=4" alt="Anthodpnt"></a></li>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/ThaoD5" target="_blank"><img src="https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/10233610?s=460&v=4" alt="ThaoD5"></a></li>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/joshgkirk" target="_blank"><img src="https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com/u/36864829?s=460&v=4" alt="joshkirk-zero"></a></li>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/mike_wagz" target="_blank"><img src="https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/12376535?s=460&v=4" alt="mikehwagz"></a></li>
</ul>
